There's a new Prezi! And yet somehow, there's STILL no italics. Seriously? If you could just explain why it's so difficult to include, I'll leave it alone, but wow, am I ever getting tired of inserting images of whatever text I need to include bits of italics....

The Prezi team has clearly succumbed to the "We know how your supposed to use this, and what you want to do is just stupid" syndrome. Once that happens to software, it's usually done. Move along to something else.

I'm not moving along, because Prezi is SUCH a valuable alternative to slide-based presentation tools. But I'm also not going to leave well enough alone, when this one little fix would make it the PERFECT TOOL FOR ACADEMICS.

I make a lot of presentations that include statistics, and it is impossible to do this without using italics. There must be millions of people in education, both students and educators who need italics, and I'm sure a few million more people being able to use your product would be good on every level. Talk to your marketing people, if they are interested in becoming big in education, introduce italics!!!!

I agree! Italics/Bold/Underline are all common functionalities of presentation software and would love to see something similar in Prezi.

As a less-than-optimal substitution - consider typing the text you desire in Microsoft Word (or other word processing software) and format it the way you want it to appear. Then use the Print Screen function to create an "image" of the text that you can add to Prezi.

Clearly, such a text image could work for a single vital instance of needing inline italics, but if it's a mere image then you lose all of Prezi's ability to work with text scaling. Worse, even a minor edit will send you through a six-step process of re-creating and re-importing the graphic.

We just hope they consider this SOON.... since even HTML has italics/bold/underline I really do not see the reason behind not enabling it.
May be if the creators/programmers explain this the whole community can pitch in to make this a very useful educational platform.

BTW, my 6th grade daughter was excited about it when it was shown in her school, but when she saw she could not italize... the interest when down exponentially

great. I just spent two hours learning how to use this new cool way of presenting a topic for my microbiology class, carefully thinking about how to organize my ideas in this web concept, and cannot italicize species names. This basic function is NECESSARY, and I guess I need to go back to powerpoint. awesome.

There are some italic fonts available (have you tried all of those present in the themes?).
With regard to transparent backgrounds for images: if you use e.g. the png file format; this supports transparancy.

Yeah, if you can't italicize text, that means that Prezi does not work with a lot of academic conventions, which means there is almost no point in teaching it to students or having academic use it in their presentations. I was hoping to use this professionally, but it looks like I can't if I can't italicize.

I study biology and used Prezi for the first time. It's simply amazing, but seriously:

You add cool new zoom and image cropping features and blinks - and still no italics?
I'm a ecologist and I have to use scientific species names all the time. It's no good solution having to use the alternate font for that.

For sure. I'm a film and television student and I'm constantly referencing titles of films, television shows, journal articles, plays and books. I need italics to properly reference all of those things. It seems foolish that bold, italics and underline wouldn't be included in a basic text editor. I have to echo the sentiment that it's ridiculous to spend time developing things like grouping by frame and panning and zooming when your basic text entry isn't fully functional. What are you thinking?

Like David, I would be happy doing an occasional image of text, in a pinch... but only IF there were some evidence that Prezi's team were working on standard inline text formatting. Otherwise, I'm investing in a dead-end platform for academic work.

Another vote for italics! I just found this cool tool and want to use it when I book talk to middle grades, but I need to be able to italicize book titles. Do you have any idea how many school teachers and librarians you could get on board if you had more fonts?

It is maddening that you do not have basic italics/bold/underline functionality, even after a year of people begging for it. As is, I have to either crop an image of text and insert it as a picture, waaaaaaay to much work just to add a scientific name of something.

At least you can use a different color in place of italics. But I think the larger problem is the limited font selection. None of them have italics /bold. I wonder if this is just a reluctance to pay for fonts.

I, too, am no longer able to use Prezi because of the lack of italics. I wanted to use it last month at a national presentation but didn't want to have to explain why things did not look like they should. Someone actually did use Prezi and had to explain why things would not be following protocol. I don't think most will want to take time to explain why they cannot produce presentations following expected formats.

+1
Italics is the most important, but presumably style is a kind of modular capacity that will bring bold and underline as well.

Note: attribute must be applicable at the character (or word) level.
Otherwise, we can't include emphasize properly, nor use Latin terms per se , nor have a proper citation list juxtaposing Author Name, Title information.